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With the success of Diffusion Models for image generation, the technologies also have revolutionized the aesthetic Quick Response (QR) code generation. Despite significant improvements in visual attractiveness for the beautified codes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jia-Wei Liao , Winston Wang , Tzu-Sian Wang , Li-Xuan Peng , Ju-Hsuan Weng , Cheng-Fu Chou , Jun-Cheng Chen

QR codes are usually scanned in different environments, so they must be robust to variations in illumination, scale, coverage, and camera angles. Aesthetic QR codes improve the visual quality, but subtle changes in their appearance may…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Mingliang Xu , Qingfeng Li , Jianwei Niu , Xiting Liu , Weiwei Xu , Pei Lv , Bing Zhou

Existing methods to generate aesthetic QR codes, such as image and style transfer techniques, tend to compromise either the visual appeal or the scannability of QR codes when they incorporate human face identity. Addressing these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Xuehao Cui , Guangyang Wu , Zhenghao Gan , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaohong Liu

In the digital era, QR codes serve as a linchpin connecting virtual and physical realms. Their pervasive integration across various applications highlights the demand for aesthetically pleasing codes without compromised scannability.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Guangyang Wu , Xiaohong Liu , Jun Jia , Xuehao Cui , Guangtao Zhai

With the continued proliferation of smart mobile devices, Quick Response (QR) code has become one of the most-used types of two-dimensional code in the world. Aiming at beautifying the visual-unpleasant appearance of QR codes, existing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Mingliang Xu , Hao Su , Yafei Li , Xi Li , Jing Liao , Jianwei Niu , Pei Lv , Bing Zhou

Quick Response (QR) code is one of the most worldwide used two-dimensional codes.~Traditional QR codes appear as random collections of black-and-white modules that lack visual semantics and aesthetic elements, which inspires the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Hao Su , Jianwei Niu , Xuefeng Liu , Qingfeng Li , Ji Wan , Mingliang Xu , Tao Ren

We use hierarchical procedural rules for the generation of control maps within the stable diffusion framework to produce photo-realistic architectural facade images. Starting from a single input image and its segmentation, we apply an…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Aleksander Plocharski , Jan Swidzinski , Przemyslaw Musialski

Artifact-free super-resolution (SR) aims to translate low-resolution images into their high-resolution counterparts with a strict integrity of the original content, eliminating any distortions or synthetic details. While traditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Qingping Zheng , Ling Zheng , Yuanfan Guo , Ying Li , Songcen Xu , Jiankang Deng , Hang Xu

Proper guidance strategies are essential to achieve high-quality generation results without retraining diffusion and flow-based text-to-image models. Existing guidance either requires specific training or strong inductive biases of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Tiancheng Li , Weijian Luo , Zhiyang Chen , Liyuan Ma , Guo-Jun Qi

Sketches serve as fundamental blueprints in artistic creation because sketch editing is easier and more intuitive than pixel-level RGB image editing for painting artists, yet sketch generation remains unexplored despite advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Ruohao Zhan , Yijin Li , Yisheng He , Shuo Chen , Yichen Shen , Xinyu Chen , Zilong Dong , Zhaoyang Huang , Guofeng Zhang

Diffusion models excel at capturing the natural design spaces of images, molecules, DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. However, rather than merely generating designs that are natural, we often aim to optimize downstream reward functions while…

Image Super-Resolution (SR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution images from degraded low-resolution inputs. While diffusion-based SR methods offer powerful generative capabilities, their performance heavily depends on how semantic priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Lei Jiang , Xin Liu , Xinze Tong , Zhiliang Li , Jie Liu , Jie Tang , Gangshan Wu

Color-guided depth map super-resolution (CDSR) improve the spatial resolution of a low-quality depth map with the corresponding high-quality color map, benefiting various applications such as 3D reconstruction, virtual reality, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Yuan Shi , Bin Xia , Rui Zhu , Qingmin Liao , Wenming Yang

Conventional physically based rendering (PBR) pipelines generate photorealistic images through computationally intensive light transport simulations. Although recent deep learning approaches leverage diffusion model priors with geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shenghao Zhang , Runtao Liu , Christopher Schroers , Yang Zhang

Image super-resolution (SR) aims to reconstruct high resolution images with both high perceptual quality and low distortion, but is fundamentally limited by the perception-distortion trade-off. GAN-based SR methods reduce distortion but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dan Wang , Haiyan Sun , Shan Du , Z. Jane Wang , Zhaochong An , Serge Belongie , Xinrui Cui

Automatic black-and-white image sequence colorization while preserving character and object identity (ID) is a complex task with significant market demand, such as in cartoon or comic series colorization. Despite advancements in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Junhao Zhuang , Xuan Ju , Zhaoyang Zhang , Yong Liu , Shiyi Zhang , Chun Yuan , Ying Shan

In this paper, we present DesignDiffusion, a simple yet effective framework for the novel task of synthesizing design images from textual descriptions. A primary challenge lies in generating accurate and style-consistent textual and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zhendong Wang , Jianmin Bao , Shuyang Gu , Dong Chen , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Generative recommendation (GR) typically first quantizes continuous item embeddings into multi-level semantic IDs (SIDs), and then generates the next item via autoregressive decoding. Although existing methods are already competitive in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Lingyu Mu , Hao Deng , Haibo Xing , Jinxin Hu , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng , Jing Zhang

Despite recent advances in text-to-image generation, controlling geometric layout and PBR material properties in synthesized scenes remains challenging. We present a pipeline that first produces a G-buffer (albedo, normals, depth,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bowen Xue , Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera , Shuang Zhao , Zahra Montazeri

The class-conditional image generation based on diffusion models is renowned for generating high-quality and diverse images. However, most prior efforts focus on generating images for general categories, e.g., 1000 classes in ImageNet-1k. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Ziying Pan , Kun Wang , Gang Li , Feihong He , Yongxuan Lai
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